This is an analysis of the poem Notturno [sover Du, Barn? ] that begins with:
Sover du, Barn? -
Nu hvælver sig Nattens det mørknende Blaa -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXbbXX cXXXXX A XXcX dXddX XXXcX XXXXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,6,1,4,5,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 11110111 10111011 11 1001010 101 101101 110111111 100110010 1111101 111011010 1101111100 10010011010 1001111 100110010 1001 1101111011 1101111011 0111111011 10111110 11111111 1111010 111101101 111101011 1110101 111101011 11111011 011111101 0111111011 110111110 110110101 10101111 10101 1010 111 11111 1
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, dig, ej, det, mig, stille are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words bevogter, jeg, det, du, stille are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ej is repeated).
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